Re: [ba-ohs-talk] Peer-to-what-peer?
On Fri, 2001-12-28 at 04:17, Henry K van Eyken wrote:
>
> Another book, apparently interesting, "Ingenuity" by some prof in British Columbia. I
> understand from dinner conversation that it is about the increasing difficulty of
> solving complex problems because they require peer-to-someone_else's_peer
> interaction. In other words, we need to be able to make ourselves clear to other
> people's peers. I also have an old item in Fleabyte named, "Wanted scientists trained
> in both biology and computer science." (The source was a June 1999 issue of The
> Economist.)
> (01)
The book is "The Ingenuity Gap" by Thomas Homer-Dixon, a professor at
the University of Toronto. The book won the 2001 Canadian Governor
General's Award for Non-Fiction. You can check it out at:
http://ingenuitygap.com (02)
It turns out that the "some prof in British Columbia" reference better
describes me now. More on that later... ;-) (03)
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